[–] 4 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

The Iron Giant

I was wondering if anyone would mention it! By far one of the most influential animated films of my youth, might have even been the reason I continued to enjoy animation past my childhood.

It flopped in theaters because despite test audiences loving it, Warner Brothers dropped the ball on marketing and nobody even knew it was in theaters. But from what I heard it gained a massive cult following, and I remember it being shown every holiday season for years as a kid.

After all these years, the final "Superman" still gets me...

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago

    The weird thing is that directly visiting the same communities that I'm subscribed to on my feed which are hosted on other instances results in them loading up incredibly fast...

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    Posting because I seem to be having issues where just opening the app to the "Subscribed" view while logged into this instance is timing out almost every time. Even when it doesn't, if I scroll to the end of the successfully loaded posts, it often shows the "failed to load, try again?" button at the bottom of the screen.

    This has been happening ever since this instance was brought back up. If I switch to anonymous browsing things start loading almost instantly. Is the SDF instance bandwidths limited for federating or something?

    ETA: I should also mention that it often takes over 20 seconds (the Jerboa client timeout) for the same page to load in the browser client, so I don't think the fundamental issue is exclusive to Jerboa, Jerboa just gives up faster.

    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I thought I was the only one.

    I studied computers down to the transistor level. I know many of the different cells in the immune cascade. I've researched child psychology.

    But ask me to explain what a car's transmission is and the only thing in my brain is dial-up tones...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Genddy Tartakovsky's Primal. The show is visceral and intense and forces you to acknowledge that you and anything around you can lose everything in the snap of fingers, for no real reason except "thats just how life is sometimes". And it does this despite having no comprehensible dialog.

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